Robert Gilbey

Digital Infra for AI | Subsea Networks | Ex 🇬🇧 & 🇮🇪 Military | 🇮🇪 & 🇪🇺 Defence Advocate | Big Tech, National Security, & Geopolitics | Views are my own.

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

#IrishDefenceThoughts

I was recently invited onto @TheDarkStatePod where we discussed:

• The current state of @dfreserve
• #IrregularReserve concept
• Drones
• Irish societal responsibility for defence.

You can listen here:

https://t.co/dPQbCtrLjr

Feedback is welcome

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

@KobeissiLetter Two Huangs don't make a right.

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

We will remember them.

[Dr Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Hey Jack, military historian here. India raised the largest all volunteer army in human history for the Second World, over 2.5m by 1945, defeating the Japanese in two of their greatest defeats. 78% of Allied armies in the Far East were Indian. Don’t believe me? Try reading a book. https://t.co/OGTQPom2i8

[The Clipfather @TheClipfather]

yeah keep building data centers

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

He is right. Time to face facts. End the parasitic behavior. Serve the American people

[Stewart Fitzell @StewartFitzell]

The Baltic states are fortifying their borders for war. Ireland still dismisses threats as “hybrid”.

Ireland has gained enormously from EU membership. European solidarity works both ways.

'Neutrality' is no excuse for shirking responsibility.

[Alex 👽 @AlexesNakamoto]

Jensen, why would I deceive you?

[RoyK @roy_kinsella]

‘Despite warnings from senior Defence Forces officers and business organisations such as Ibec that Ireland is actively exposed to this hybrid conflict, the political discourse in Leinster House remains gridlocked.’

[Burn Notice @BurnNotice85]

@RobGilbey A sustainable & future leaning force concept. Agile, civilian led-militia able to lean & draw on vast,civvy skillsets. The engineer, the mechanic, the linguist..who can all shoot, move & communicate, medicate. Adjacent to uniformed services. Localised resistance = Finnish ConOps

[ClarksonsFarm @ClarksonsFarm1]

The finale of the brilliant historical sitcom Blackadder left many of us in tears. It remains just as powerful today, and so it should. Lest we forget.

[Cormac O'Keeffe @CormacJOKeeffe]

RTE discovering security and defence are serious issues - but no security experts on panel...

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

Poppies growing at the Clonee Datacentre this week.

It gave me pause for reflection.

#LestWeForget #RemembranceDay #WeWillRememberThem

[Dimko Zhluktenko 🇺🇦⚔️ @dim0kq]

Photographer Kostiantyn Liberov laid soldiers of the 28th Mechanized Brigade down next to everything they carry.

This is what one job on the front line actually takes.

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

@IAmIsraelHands During Simon's press release, there was a mistaken public disclosure of the size of the ARW.

To my knowledge, it hasn't increased structurally. Between attrition and retention challenges, I would be surprised if it has grown since that announcement.

I'm no expert here, though.

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

The thing that always stuck in my mind is that when Russia attacked Ukraine, the Ukrainians distributed weapons out the back of trucks to just about anyone.

Why are we not ready for such a crisis when there are so many beneficial byproducts to the process of getting ready?

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

Ireland should have an Irregular Reserve Force for an unconventional defence of the island.

Here's why, based on what we're learning from Ukraine.

#FundtheDF

THREAD:

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

I experienced significant resistance to my concept of a #IrregularReserve, but as events develop, much of which are predictable, there is an inevitability that we would have to adopt such a scheme that diversifies our military and national resilience.

We can fix Irish defence.

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

Ireland needs to reduce its conventional light infantry reserve forces & adopt an #IrregularReserve for distributed territorial defence.

Why?

Because a stand up fight will descend into being scrappy, unconventional, & inconvenient.

#IrishDefenceThoughts

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Not true. Hegseth gets his clothes from a company called Book a Tailor, which he confirmed in a Fox News segment. I suspect he got his clothes for free in exchange for this mention on Fox News. The company owner confirmed in an interview that their suits are made in Thailand.

In the time he since promoted this company, three US suit factories have faced closure. Instead of promoting US-made clothing, Hegseth promoted cheap imports that undercut US manufacturers.

You only think they're made in the US because the clothes are plastered with US flags. This is because you are more easily impressed by spectacle than substance, which is why this administration is so exciting for you.

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

Love it

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This guy spent 14 hours assembling the shield.

[📹electric_70]

[Robert Gilbey @RobGilbey]

Leverage

[Prof. Bonk 🇺🇦 Perverse & Unintended Consequences @actfast]

🧵Zelenskyy hit Putin’s oil five nights in a row, and Putin responded by slashing recruit signing bonuses from $39,000 to $8,000 overnight.

As refineries burned 155 miles from the Kremlin, Kazakhstan cut oil transit, and Moscow froze troop pay until January. 1/🧵